What are the challenges?
This section contains various research reports which consider the age related barriers to employment, together with a pamphlet which raises issues related to the UK move towards a discretionary retirement age and a literature review on retirement ages in the UK.
- Challenging Age
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This section contains the 'Challenging Age' documents which consider the age related barriers to employment.
- Attachment to place, social networks, mobility and prospects of young people
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This report explores how social networks and attachment to place shape young people’s attitudes towards education, training and work opportunities, and looks at the scope for interventions to ‘widen horizons’ and enhance access to opportunities by Anne E Green and Richard J White, (2007) for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
- Work after 60 - choice or necessity, burden or benefit?
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The Third Age Employment Network (TAEN) has published a 14 page pamphlet, which you can access here.
- Literature review: retirement ages in the UK
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This review examines the evidence relevant to the issue of extending the working age beyond the traditional retirement ages for men and for women.
- Transitions after 50: the Joseph Rowntree Foundation
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Five papers, published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, explore ways that choices and opportunities in later working life can be improved.
- Factors affecting the labour market participation of older workers
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DWP Report on 'Factors affecting the labour market participation of older workers' by Alun Humphrey et al. (2003) highlights how ‘semi-retirement’ can be seen as a way of easing the transition from work to full retirement. Semi-retirement is associated with self-employment, with employees moving from
permanent to fixed- or short-term contracts, with a reduction in working hours and with a move away from people’s main line of work.
- Labour Market Information - Future Trends
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You may also wish to use the LMI Future Trends section of this website, for labour market information on age.
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